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title: —“_In the mountain-temple the paper mosquito-curtain is lighted by t… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: —“_In the mountain-temple the paper mosquito-curtain is lighted by the dawn: sound of water-fall_.” A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 2

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—“\_In the mountain-temple the paper mosquito-curtain is lighted by the dawn: sound of water-fall\_.”

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**What happens:** light · **To what, where:** paper mosquito curtain, mountain temple

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8128:24:2
# text = —“_In the mountain-temple the paper mosquito-curtain is lighted by the dawn: sound of water-fall_.”
1	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	In	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
11	mosquito	mosquito	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	curtain	curtain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
20	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **light** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | the paper mosquito curtain |  | the mountain temple | dawn |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Project Gutenberg book 8128 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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